By A. Jonathan Taylor
Ch. 4: The War Has Begun!
(A.N.: As you remember in the past chapters; Ash has left the group and disappeared into the darkness, the dynamic trio of Team Rocket that we loved got fired by Giovanni, then they joined up with Team Hunter as Scarlet Python & Blue Rose & Solar Charmer, Ash's gang of friends joined the army because the war is starting, and Misty found out she has a brother named Marty.)
During the 2 weeks after the introduction of Marty Williams, Misty's brother... everyone went to training for battle before the first assault. But now today is the first day of the assault!
Recently just yesterday at noon, the city once known as Dark City, was devastated as a demonstration of the World Domination Regime's power. The Yas & Kas Gyms tried to protect the town... but very few lived.
Out of the ashes of Dark City comes sorrow, then anger! (A.N.: Paraphrased line on "Starship Troopers") A male survivor angrily says, "The only good W.D.R. member of W.D.R. is a dead W.D.R. member! Because this town was my home and I say KILL THEM ALL!!!"
(A.N.: He's the blue-haired boy from "Showdown at Dark City!")
Everyone strapped themselves into thick metal suits of body armor (Amazonium; a metal so rare and so strong, it can rarely be found on Earth (it's almost as strong as Adamantium (virtually indestructible))), and thick Kevlar suits, and their helmets are equipped with computers so they may analyze the situation around them.
About troop after troop is armed with enhanced weaponry and Poké balls with super-hard trained Pokémon. They all marched into armored ground vehicles that moved into the battlefield, just around the rocky desert in the Johto Region...
Inside one of these vehicles, an officer said, "We are going in for first strike, a lot more foes to kill or capture. You go smash anything and stop anything or anyone who bears the insignia of World Domination Regime (W.D.R. interlocked with each other)! Do you get me?" All other soldiers replied in unison, "We get you, sir!"
The pressure doors opened, the soldiers rushed out for battle! W.D.R. showed up just in time, the battle begins! Marty frowned before charging into battle, "Stupid calm before battle!"
(W.D.R. head count: 100,000 in action)
(World Resistance head count: 100,000 in action)
The air was filled with gunfire, flying rocks, whirlwinds, lightning bolts, etc.! This battle is getting too far fast... 1 hour later...
(W.D.R. head count: 99,988 in action, 6 captured, three M.I.A., two W.I.A., one K.I.A.)
(World Resistance head count: 5,000 in action, 90,490 captured, 4,500 W.I.A., 10 K.I.A.)
The beginning of this war was a fiasco! There was almost no way to stop all of these combined evil organizations... at the point of surrender... sounds of energy humming filled the air! From out of the sky... 3 beams of light (one of red, one of blue, and one of yellow) appeared before Marty & Misty Williams! As the lights touched the ground...
The red light formed into a woman dressed in red leather boots, a red Chinese dress with golden serpentine dragon decorations & the Team Hunter insignia above the left breast, red metallic gauntlets with thick cuffs, a 'huge' pair of green orb earrings (both are half as big as an orange), and a red hair band that looks like it's made up of Poké Balls. With a few golden coiling cobras styled jewelry with ruby eyes as an addition, along with a pair of blue-tinted sunglasses. Her hair is red and placed in a huge ponytail (A.N.: When I mean huge, I mean "major surfboards" huge). It's Scarlet Python.
The blue light formed into a man dressed in blue sandals (blue Samurai armored from ankle to knee), blue shorts, blue muscle shirt, blue Samurai vest robe (white Samurai shoulder guards), a blue belt with twin gold-hilted swords, blue Samurai armored cuffs, and a red hair band that holds that incredible body of his hair in a large Samurai style ponytail (strange thing about this hair band is that it as a red rose between the start of the ponytail and the back of this man's head). The Team Hunter insignia is on the front-left side of his vest. With a few golden flower styled pieces of jewelry with blue petals as an addition, along with a pair of green-tinted sunglasses, his hair however is lengthened and placed in a long ponytail. He's Blue Rose!
The yellow light formed into a Meowth with golden sunglasses with ruby/sapphire lenses. He's Solar Charmer! Then they recited their motto——
"Okay villains, prepare for trouble. "
"While you're at it, make it double."
"We're here to protect the world from devastation."
"And unite all peoples within every nation."
"And protect the rights of truth and love."
"And to extend our reach beyond the stars above."
"Scarlet Python!"
"Blue Rose!"
"Team Hunter saving the world at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now, or prepare to lose the fight!"
"Meowth, the Solar Charmer, that's right!"
"Wobbuffet! ("Hunter Heart!")"
(A.N.: "Hunter Heart" is supposed to be like Scrappy-Doo's "Puppy Power!")
Two familiar faces opened their visors: Cassidy & Butch. Cassidy questions Python, "Jessie?" Butch follows, "And Lames?" Even though Butch tried to insult James... it didn't faze Blue Rose at all!
The Blue Rose smirked, "You actually still think that the James Morgan and Jessica Parker you two once knew still exist, Butch?" Butch frowned, "The name is 'Botch'!" Everyone else corrected him at once, "Butch."
(A.N.: Feel free to laugh as much as you want.)
Butch blushed with embarrassment! Then he fumed in anger, "KILL HIM!!!" Every W.D.R. member pumped Blue Rose full of lead (and other types of ammunition). As he fell to the ground after the many blows... Butch exhaled, "Now my headache's gone."
Scarlet Python laughed out loud at W.D.R.! Leaving Misty & the others confused... Misty asked, "Hey, they killed your partner! Uh... Blue Rose, was it? What makes you think it's a laughing matter?" Scarlet Python answered, "Just watch." After she said that... Blue Rose got back up to his feet; acting like all of those shots were absolutely nothing, "After killing me, what were you planning to do next?"
Butch started panicking, "But... you're supposed to be dead!" Scarlet Python smirked, "We've got several tricks up our sleeves... and allies." Blue Rose spoke to the World Resistance, "Don't worry, kids! We're going to keep them at bay!"
Misty said, "Okay."
Energy hummed again! From out of the sky... three more beams of light (one of red, one of blue, and one of yellow) appeared before Marty & Misty Williams!
As the lights touched the ground... the red light formed into see a handsome young man with gentle blue eyes, a nice Caucasian skin tone, and long blonde hair. He's dressed in white sandals (white Samurai armored from ankle to knee), white shorts, white muscle shirt, white Samurai vest robe (white Samurai shoulder guards), a black belt with twin gold-hilted swords, white Samurai armored cuffs, a white armored pair of headphones, and a black hair band that holds that incredible body of his hair in a large Samurai style ponytail (strange thing about this hair band is that it as a black hilt dangling from it between the start of the ponytail and the back of this man's head). The knife symbol is on the front-left side of his vest. His smile is so addictive; the Devil can't help but be happy. A handsome little Growlithe (with a blue neckerchief) is following him like a loyal dog. It's Knight (or Samurai if you prefer).
The blue light formed into a woman in blue's wearing blue leather boots, a blue short skirt, a blue tank top, a blue vest with short sleeves, blue metallic gauntlets with thick cuffs, a 'huge' pair of blue cylinder earrings, and a blue hair band that looks like it's made up of blue Poké Balls. She's raven-haired, well endowed (to Jessie's jealousy), athletic, and pretty faced. A Snowolf that's got a Native American textured dog collar. (A.N.: Okay you horny boys, in case you were wondering; the girl in blue's bust size is 48F!) She's Amazon (or Valkyrie)!
The yellow light formed into a man in black who's wearing black leather boots, a pair of swank black pants, a golden belt, a white muscle shirt with the Team Hunter insignia on his chest, a large black trench coat/overcoat, a pair of blood-red fingerless gloves, a large red scarf (which is wrapped around his face), a pair of black-tinted sunglasses, & a black fedora. From what Jessie could make out of that man is that he has a darkened Caucasian skin tone, spiky jet-black hair in a massive body (which explains why he has a large ponytail the size of a root), he is really tall (around 6' 2"), a muscular body, & the eyes are hidden away behind those sunglasses. He's got a Pikachu with what looks like claw marks across the back & its left cheek. He's Blade (or Paladin, if you prefer).
Duplica sarcastically said, "What do know, it's some other demonic force!" Blade corrected Duplica with a gruff voice, "No, we are Team Hunter, we're here to save your butts!"
Cassidy joked, "Team Hunter? What kind of threat are you?"
A nearby W.D.R. soldier shook in his boots, "You don't understand, Team Hunter has been a threat to all that stands against the law ever since 15 years ago! We should know; I am apart of Team Science and that meddling empire destroyed everything we've stood for!"
Scarlet Python pulled off her left earring, "Behold, my Jade Grenade." A ring of flashing red lights formed around it, she threw it like a baseball at W.D.R.... Kaboom! A gigantic green-colored mushroom cloud explosion took place where Python threw that grenade!
(W.D.R. head count: 49,994 in action, 6 captured, 3 M.I.A., 2 W.I.A., 49,995 K.I.A.)
(World Resistance head count: 95,000 in action, 4,990 W.I.A., 10 K.I.A.)
(Team Hunter head count: six in action)
Cassidy got nervous, "All that... in one... grenade... attack?" Scarlet Python grinned with her fangs bared, "And there's more where that came from, Little Miss Snake's Cuisine." As proof as she would, Python licked her lips at Cassidy, who immediately panicked in fear.
Amazon grabbed Python's right shoulder and said, "Down, Python. We are to await K's orders." Knight pulls out a white Poké-Cell and says, "K says, 'let's devastate W.D.R.!'" Blade pulls out his Poké Cell and talked through it, "Bring the Hunter attack gunships."
Up in the sky, dozens of fleets aerial ships with wings like Bowie knives hovered down to the survivors. Each of these blade-winged gunships was covered in weapons (lasers and rockets), offering air-to-ground and air-to-air support as well as serving as an infantry transport. These flying vehicles are about 58 feet long each, with an impressive wingspan of 50 feet. It flies by use of ion engines (not gasoline engines like some rocket ships). The seen weapons on these include three laser turrets, four composite-beam laser turrets, air-to-air rockets, two missile launchers, & most likely the wings.
Several dozen armored Team Hunter soldiers marched out of the few that landed! These Hunter troopers are fully encased in hard silver armor (bearing the Team Hunter insignia); their faces are concealed behind a black-tinted boomerang-shaped visor. Color-coded flashes on the armor seem to denote rank, with green troopers being sergeants, blue being lieutenants, red being captains, and yellow being commanders. Other ships placed down enormous armored battle tanks with something that looks like legs folded beside the caterpillar tracks.
Blue Rose spoke before their march began, "My dear Hunter troopers, we stand upon a great threshold! It's alright to be scared; most of you won't be coming back. But, thanks to W.D.R., the time has come to punish ALL of the Devil's children! First, second, 3rd AND 4th-born! Why be biased? Male and female! Hell, the sexes are always equal! FORWARD MARCH! THE LIBERATION OF POKÉ-WORLD HAS BEGUN!"
The World Domination Regime was impressed by the amount of soldiers they have to deal with now. Butch commanded the troops, "Forward march; attack!"
(W.D.R. head count: 49,994 in action, 6 captured, 3 M.I.A., 2 W.I.A., 49,995 K.I.A.)
(World Resistance head count: 95,000 in action, 4,990 W.I.A., 10 K.I.A.)
(Team Hunter head count: 1,000,006 in action)
In a matter of 10 minutes in battle...
(W.D.R. head count: 9,804 in action, 100 captured, 3 M.I.A., 2 W.I.A., 89,995 K.I.A.)
(World Resistance head count: 95,000 in action, 4,990 W.I.A., 10 K.I.A.)
(Team Hunter head count: 1,000,006 in action)
Very few of the World Domination Regime after the first 10 minutes of remained. With only large armored enemy ground vehicles to fight with, the only ones who are daring to take them on are Blade, Knight, Amazon, and their Pokémon. Misty & co., who was with the first six met members of Team Hunter, doubted Blade, & his friends' confidence!
Misty shouted at Blade, "ARE YOU GUYS CRAZY? NOBODY CAN TAKE ON WHOLE FLEETS OF BATTLETANKS ON THEIR OWN!" Marty added, "BESIDES THEY'RE AMAZONIUM-PLATED, I CHECKED!" Blade just adjusted his hat and said, "I'm not afraid." Knight grinned, "You just haven't seen what we can do." Amazon adjusted her vest, "And what our Pokémon are capable of."
Blade and the team leapt from the open door and landed on their feet from the 100-foot drop. Knight spoke into his headphones–– Knight smiled some more, "We're going to show them what we 3 are capable of."
Knight reached for the hilt on his hair band and pulled on it, by pressing on a switch on it... a huge silvery sword blade sprang out, turning the hilt into a sword!
Blade took off his coat and threw it onto the rocky ground, revealing muscular arms and the fact that his gloves reach from the top of his knuckles to his elbows (not to mention a computer on his left glove and some sort of launcher on his right glove), and then he threw his hat onto the ground, revealing his elongated raven hair, and then he unwrapped his blood-red face cover until it's proved to be a scarf that still covers his face but gives him a tail that reaches down to his knees!
Amazon detached the blue cylinders from her earrings and tapped them against each other, turning them both into 3-ft. twin Escrima fighting sticks!
Misty said, "Those three are going to be fighting with a sword, fists, two sticks, and Pokémon? They're toast."
Blade was the first to surprise everyone: he came up to an oncoming W.D.R. tank and ripped it apart with his bare hands (A.N.: Impossible, eh? Well, it's my story.)! Brock said with awe, "He's not even breaking a sweat!"
At W.D.R. Headquarters... everyone in the main room was watching the whole battle outcome by personal television. Giovanni asked, "What's this? Some organization called Team Hunter is defeating us and rescuing our enemies?"
Cassidy (A.N.: she came in with a left arm in cast) answered, "Yes, sir. They're horribly powerful! Look at what that one man's doing!"
On the battlefield... Blade continued to rip vehicles apart and sending all oncoming opponents beyond the horizon without breaking a sweat!
Knight just cheerfully & calmly walked through battle; fighting anything W.D.R. like they were nothing.
Amazon used martial arts to beat up the oncoming soldiers!
Blade's Pikachu shocked everything electronic belonging to W.D.R. overloading their systems causing them to self-destruct!
Knight's Growlithe breathed powerful flames from its maw onto helpless opponents!
Amazon's Snowolf locked a lot of foes in solid ice.
Up in the air... Misty and the others watched...
Brock said, "It's got to be internal cybernetic strength enhancers; no human, no matter how strong they are; can bend or break, through any metal such as Amazonium." Misty said, "Maybe, but that Amazon has some killer martial arts." Marty added, "And Knight's got a sword powerful enough to cut through Amazonium like butter."
May figured, "Maybe Blade might forget his jacket and hat; can we go back down and retrieve them?" The Hunter trooper pilot that's flying the ship they're in complied, "Yes, madam." Surprisingly, these troopers are told to take orders without question. As the landed... May tried to pick up Blade's coat...
May grunting for strength as she was struggling to get it up!
Brock looked at May with curiosity, "What's wrong, May?" May answered, "This jacket weighs like a ton!" Misty tested her strength on it... surprisingly; it felt like trying to move a mountain to her!
Misty called to Duplica, "Duplica!" Duplica looked at Misty, "Yes, Misty?" "Get the hat!" Duplica tried to pick up Blade's hat, only to feel the same trouble as Misty is. Duplica's helmet fell off and onto Blade's hat's brim... Clang! The brim sliced Duplica's helmet like butter!
Duplica got curious about Team Hunter, "And that Blade Boy wears these things?" Brock remembered what he said about humans being strong enough to rip tanks with their bare hands and said, "Well... almost no human."
All three headquarters saw the whole thing that that group was experimenting!
At the World Resistance Headquarters... a wounded officer exclaimed, "No way!"
At W.D.R. headquarters... Giovanni commanded his troops, "Call all units! Tell them to fall back! That Blade character of Team Hunter has the strength of a monster!" Annie shouted in a microphone, "All units; fall back! Repeat: fall back! Fall back!"
At Team Hunter headquarters... K was pleased at what's happening, "Perfect, now they will soon know of our good purpose."
On the battlefield... while W.D.R. is retreating... one dying W.D.R. soldier was lifting his pistol at the back of Misty's head! Only Blade saw this and charged in to block it! He made it, only to have the bullet nick him through the back of his left shoulder to a high point above his left breast! Luckily the bullet was stopped, but Misty turned quickly and watched in terror, "MAN DOWN! MEDIC!"
(W.D.R. final head count: 49,993 in action, 6 captured, 3 M.I.A., 2 W.I.A., 49,996 K.I.A.)
(World Resistance final head count: 95,000 in action, 4,990 W.I.A., 10 K.I.A.)
(Team Hunter final head count: 1,000,005 in action, one W.I.A.)
6 hours later... at the World Resistances' M.A.S.H. (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) grounds... a Nurse Joy asked a nearby doctor, "Are you ready to operate, Dr. Hawk?"
Dr. Hawk's sort of a corpulent with brown hair in a cru cut, and a Caucasian skin tone. He answered Nurse Joy, "I would love to, but first I have to perform surgery." And then chuckled.
(A.N.: Imagine that; a nurse working with wounded Pokémon, while the doctor works on surgery with humans!)
The irreverent surgeon went to work. Unknown to them... Misty was already working on a patient; Blade got wounded for trying to save her! She stripped him down to his underwear! She noticed that Blade had horrible bloody burns and scars on his bearded face (good reason to cover up)! His body was massively muscular and athletic!
So far for 3 minutes... she was trying not to hurt Blade from his gun wound... Misty called out to everyone still standing, "I need lots of hot water, a set of scalpels, and another blood bucket, stat!"
Just for saying that, the doctor noticed what Misty was doing! Dr. Hawk sarcastically said to her, "Jeez, private Williams, leave some for the enemy to kill." Marty, while trying his best to heal a wounded girl, said to Dr. Hawk, "Leave my sister alone! She has SOME experience more valuable than yours, you know!"
Dr. Hawk smirked, "Yeah, she's a Pokémon trainer, a nurse, a soldier, a gym leader, AND a butcher!" Than he laughed an annoying laugh! That annoying laughter was enough to wake Blade up! He felt his hand and grabbed Dr. Hawk by the collar, close to his scarred face, "Listen here, you quack! This woman is trying to heal my gun wound! You don't even deserve to be called a surgeon! If you make another mean wisecrack about her, I'll send you to meet a surgeon who has as much care as Ash Ketchum had!" Blade's threats were facing Godzilla himself! Dr. Hawk had no choice but to obey those words.
Misty looked at Blade as she continued to work on his wound, "Wait! You know Ash Ketchum?" He answered, "Barely. To me... he doesn't exist anymore... as much as I don't exist to the world."
Knight who came from out of nowhere said to May, who was also trying to heal a patient, "See? This is how it starts: first with the jokes, then comes the HEAVY stuff." Dr. Hawk went from irreverent to maudlin in less than 5 seconds, "When will the war and killing end?"
After 35 bloodbath minutes... the operation was a success! Misty shouted, "I did it!" Blade tested his left arm; it no longer hurts, he said to Misty, "Good work!"
Brock came around after having a backache cured through chiropractics from Amazon, "I'm jealous, Blade." Blade asked, "Why?" Brock listed down the reasons why he envies Blade, "You've got muscles harder than steel, and yet there's something about you that I know about!"
When the surgery on the other patients was complete... the now maudlin Dr. Hawk said to himself, "Damn the man, Blade. He is not a warrior; he's a murderer!"
Blade placed his clothes back on as quickly as possible and said to Misty, "You really did an excellent job." At that, Blade & the other Team Hunter members left...
Misty wondered, "I wonder, I wonder if that Blade actually does know Ash."
To be continued...